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FreedomWorks attends YAL Convention at UC Irvine

FreedomWorks was represented at the University of California in Irvine this past weekend at the California Young Americans for Liberty State Convention, in order to push our Generational Theft survey and youth outreach for our upcoming Generational Theft fly-in during the FreePAC: Morning in America Summit, in Cincinnati March 12.

YAL had about 200 college students on hand from California, Utah and Nevada to hear speakers such as Ron Paul, David Friedman, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (California-48) and myself. FreedomWorks was tabling with three other gold level sponsors at the event.

Most of our grassroots materials were gone before the Saturday convention was over. I gave away FW t-shirts, Stephen Moore's Pro-Growth Agenda booklets, Common Core fact sheets, Federalism in Action and From High Seas to Highway Robbery booklets on criminal justice reform, FW bumper magnets, assorted bumper stickers — and actually ran out of hard copies of our survey.

For those interested in our Generational Theft survey and fly-in competition, please take the survey here. We will select 20 winners to join us for an all-expenses paid trip to Cincinnati March 12.

For those who have any questions about the fly-in opportunity, please contact Grassroots Coordinator, Casey Cheap, at (202) 942-7621 or ccheap@freedomworks.org

FreedomWorks will host its fourth stop of the Constitution Revival Tour in West Palm Beach, Florida on Friday, September 23. FreedomWorks kicked off the tour in May in Columbus, Ohio and continued it in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in June and Sacramento, California in July.

In the television drama, The West Wing, President Josiah Barlet, played by Martin Sheen, laments to his chief of staff, Leo McGarry, about the challenges of growing the economy. "Historically, 2 to 2.5 percent GDP expansion is classified lackluster even anemic economic growth," Bartlet said. "Four and a half to 5 percent is needed just to be considered robust and not even spectacular."

Congress may be away from Washington, but FreedomWorks isn't resting. Our hardworking team has used the legislative recess to their advantage, hosting several grassroots events around the country, including another stop on the Constitution Revival Tour in Sacramento, playing a major role in the RedState Gathering in Denver, and hosting our third super activist boot camp of the year in Chicago.

FreedomWorks Foundation drove more than 21,000 responses against new rules proposed by the U.S. Department of Education that would implement parts of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) that was passed by Congress in December 2015 and signed into law by President Barack Obama. The comment period for the proposed rules ended on Monday, August 1.